Tanya Talaga: Deaths of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay is a Canadian problem

APTN Face To Face Award winning, journalist and author Tanya Talaga is known for her investigative reporting for the Toronto Star where she often focuses on Indigenous issues.

Most recently, Talaga released the national bestseller, ‘Seven Fallen Feathers. Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City.”

The book focuses on seven Indigenous youth who died in Thunder Bay, Ontario while attending high school hundreds of kilometres away from their families. An Inquest into the deaths wrapped up in 2016 and produced 145 recommendations.

Months later, two more youth would be pulled from waterways in Thunder Bay.

Talaga joins host Dennis Ward to discuss her novel, the ongoing deaths of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay and why it is not just a Thunder Bay problem.